Game Lab 1 | Nord.no

Game Lab is a work simulator aiming to give the students a controlled environment in which to learn how to work together in a development team.

Game Lab should be treated by the students as a normal day at work in a video game production company. The aim for the teams is to produce a game or an experience product based on technologies and topics taught in other subjects like Programming Fundamentals

After completing this subject the students will have:

Knowledge about:

Working in a project with a defined deadline
Working in and organizing work in a team project
How the individual parts of a project organization functions as a bigger unit
Developing and pitching ideas

Skills within:

The topics the student has chosen to improve his or hers special competence through the project
Project management and process development within teams

General competence in:

Working in organized teams
Participating in practical projects
Evaluating their own and others efforts in a team

No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.

This subject gives the students an opportunity to develop their own ideas into finished products. They are also given practical experience in using their own concept art and tools to evaluate their own product idea's market potential.

Evaluation using mid-term and final surveys. Students are also encouraged to participate in the central quality surveys.

Overlap refers to a similarity between courses with the same content. Therefore, you will receive the following reduction in credits if you have taken the courses listed below:

SPO1004 - Game Development with GameLab 1 - 5 credits